Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] WASPS, ANTS AND BEES community, whose entrance into the hive must be vigorously guarded against. Yellow-jackets hover tentatively around the opening; they are arrant robbers and are ready to take any chance to get at the full honey-cells. But more dangerous, because of the habit of attacking en masse, are honey-bees of other hives. Not infrequently a desperate foray by hundreds FIG. 91.—A small observation hive in which the honey-comb has been destroyed by larvae of the bee moth, Gallcria mellondl
Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] WASPS, ANTS AND BEES community, whose entrance into the hive must be vigorously guarded against. Yellow-jackets hover tentatively around the opening; they are arrant robbers and are ready to take any chance to get at the full honey-cells. But more dangerous, because of the habit of attacking en masse, are honey-bees of other hives. Not infrequently a desperate foray by hundreds FIG. 91.—A small observation hive in which the honey-comb has been destroyed by larvae of the bee moth, Gallcria mellondla. (Greatly re- duced.) of other bees will be made into a hive, especially a weak one, and a pitched battle will occur in and about the entrance and inside the hive itself, resulting in the death of hundreds, even thousands of bees. More insidious and even more dangerous are the stealthy invasions of a small dusty-winged moth, the 'large' bee-moth, Calleria mellonella, or the 'small' bee-moth,
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